Review: Desert X 2021 art rises across Palm Springs and beyond
(Lance Gerber) As an artistic form, the machine-geometry of a classic Minimalist cube has long signaled the heavy industrialization of the modern world — which ravaged Africa, contributing to the water crises that today plague Ghana. Securing the resource for survival requires relentless daily labor. That’s what all those yellow water containers are for. Bringing the local desert into the endurance narrative, Attukwei Clottey spread a puddle-shaped sheet on the ground that links the two cubes. Set in another lovely garden, Amer’s “Women’s Qualities” is partly tongue-in-cheek, supp...